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Parts of a City

CBD(Central Business District)

Inner City(usually terraced houses)

Suburbs

Rural-Urban Fringe

Definitions

Urbanisaton

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas

Subrbanistaion

Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in formation of urban sprawl

Industrialisation

Industrialisation is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society

Deindustrialisation

Its the complete opposite of industrialisation

Development

Bottom-Up

Top-Down

This is done by big corporations or the government and usually the peoples response doesn't come into question.

Community started makes little difference usually

Detroit

Detroit is a city that was hurt during the end of the motor car industry in america. This is called deindustrialisation when all the businesses left to find cheaper areas for production. The white people left this was known as white flight they left because there was no jobs but now it is in the situation that there is no work, houses are dirt cheap as no one wants to live there

New York

Obviously another city in america its a city that has been rapidly expanded because of the rush of immigrants following the american dream which really doesn't exist. There are ethnic enclaves such as Chinatown, Little Italy which is stereo typically full of pizza shops. The city of New york founded by english settlers was a very small town back before the immigrants came over the city then grew and took over the surrounding areas(suburbanisation).

types of cities

A megacity is the term used for a city that has a population of over 10 million inhabitants.

World city is a city that has a very large worldwide influence such as London or New York

A city in the UK defines as any size settlement that contains a cathedral so Exeter Is a city but Milton Keynes is not.